Staff Software Engineer (Payments)
GoFundMe · San Francisco, CA
$195,000–$293,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role on the Payouts team, focused on building and scaling payments infrastructure that handles large-scale money movement, ledgering, and disbursements. The work involves bringing core payments capabilities in-house, owning architectural decisions across the full payout lifecycle, and mentoring other engineers. Best suited to engineers with deep payments domain experience — particularly in areas like ledgering, reconciliation, or KYC — who are comfortable leading complex technical projects end to end.
Staff level · 8+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 590 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 250–1,050
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The 8+ years of experience is framed around payments domain areas (Checkout, Payouts, Ledgering, Reconciliation, Interchange, KYC/Onboarding) rather than a single named technology, so it is captured as the role-level overall years minimum.
New Relic and Sumo Logic appear in the required qualifications section as examples of application performance monitoring and log analytics tools; they are treated as interchangeable alternatives for that hard-gated capability.
Spring Boot, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, GraphQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL all appear under an explicit 'Preferred' heading and are marked accordingly.
MySQL and PostgreSQL are listed as interchangeable relational database options ('such as MySQL or PostgreSQL') and are combined into one preferred skill with PostgreSQL as the alternative.
The role is hybrid and candidates must be located in San Francisco; it is not fully remote.
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